Sentences with phrase «like pendulums swinging»

Each «island» is a set of quantum states for particles at the same point in space but with opposite momentums, like pendulums swinging in different directions.

That is, a constantly changing system that nonetheless stays within parameters, like a pendulum swinging back and forth.

Not exact matches

But, just like 4 % mortgage rates won't last forever, eventually the income tax pendulum will swing back.

I do think the pendulum has swung too far in the self - interest direction but like most things I believe what is old (even values) becomes new again... perhaps we'll have more balance in another generation or two?

These movements are unpredictable and hence not easily susceptible to being represented in terms of a neat rhythmic model like the swinging of a clock pendulum.

He would sit back, fold his arms, stick out his neck, and his eyes will be swinging from side to side like a pendulum, while just does a very fat nothing.

Interest in the title fight peaked last season when the fight between Hamilton and Vettel was swinging like a pendulum, and we only reached the point in which the fight was all but over very late on in the season.

I wan na see them swing like a pendulum in such a way that it would travel around the ballpark and into orbit, if only there were no confines.

Society is swinging like a pendulum, from a patriarchal one to a matriarchal one.

It's almost like the pendulum has swung completely in the opposite direction from a cleft palate to the opposite side which is midline tether.

Yet others swing between these two extremes like a pendulum.

As the slugs hunker in ambush, the unsuspecting bird (order Strigiformes) lands and suddenly finds itself upside - down and swinging like a pendulum from the buttered perch, talons gripping in astonishment.

Staggering home from the supermarket laden with bags of shopping, it would be impossible — and more than a little silly — to rock your torso quickly back and forth while swinging your legs in loopy, pendulum - like steps.

Whatever their use, all clocks need two basic components: a constant repetitive action (like a pendulum's swing or an atom's vibrations) and a way to mark time's progression.

For a toe - baller, all the force is generated by the kicking leg, which swings in line under the hip like a pendulum.

The overall pattern of the dance is two adjacent ovals connected by a straight line called a waggle run, during which a female bee swings her abdomen back and forth like a pendulum, 13 to 15 times a minute.

Management strategies for patients with mantle cell lymphoma continue to demonstrate pendulum - like swings between those appropriate for low - grade lymphoma, and those appropriate for very aggressive lymphoma.

This overuse happens when your lower leg goes too far forward in a pendulum - like swing, putting too much strain on your hamstrings repeatedly while running.

You watch as his back swings like a pendulum throughout the exercise.

But - just like almost everything discussed in this article - there is a pendulum that can swing too far in both directions.

When that didn't work, the pendulum swung back and it became all about avoiding carbs like the plague.

The walking body acts more like an inverted pendulum, swinging along step - by - step, literally vaulting over stiff legs with locked knees.

Like a swinging pendulum, the energies associated with the two nostrils alternately dominate, but during moments of transition, the two become equal.

• Continue with the swinging motion, following it like a pendulum for 10 reps. • Repeat with other arm.

Three round amethyst swing like pendulums from the sterling silver chain for a unique and sophisticated look.

The early days are spring are always chaotic, for certain places in the world, the weather often swings like a pendulum from hot to cold.

So instead of being that, they swing the pendulum ALLLLLL the way to the other side and come off sounding like a 1950s housewife.

Like a well - tuned pendulum, the story swings from the claustrophobic confines of the imprisoned passengers to comfortable but similarly tense official conference rooms.

The hills of a desert, where the trio crashes after flying through a thunderstorm, become the towering waves of the high seas, and a clash of ships results in one swinging like a pendulum from the yardarm of the other.

He did tell us his band were from Mars... In a lot of ways this rambling, rich psychodrama feels like the last real sci - fi film of the»70s, before the pendulum swung to heroic space opera and stuck.

A brief skim through the history books of teacher training shows that the preference for university - led v school - led provision has swung back and forth like a pendulum.

Industries tend to swing like a pendulum between interdependent and modular architectures.

A brief skim through the history books of teacher training shows that the preference for university ‑ led versus school - led provision has swung back and forth like a pendulum, but artificial and unhelpful distinctions between different kinds of training provision should be forgotten — the reality is that SCITTs, HEIs, Teach First and School Direct providers have long worked together.

The best argument for emphasizing evidence in educational policy and practice is what happens when evidence plays no role: practice and policy swing like a pendulum from one enthusiasm to the opposite, and then back again, but no progress is made.The solution is to have a wide array of research going on at all times to create and evaluate promising solutions to longstanding problems.

And, too, the good fortune borne of hipness swings like a pendulum; 40 years on, kids whose parents were sick of the Cadillac name are the ones now sick of Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, because everybody's already bought one.

The popularity pendulum that swings between big autos and small is on its way back toward little cars, so expect to see a whole lot more compacts like the basically - already - here Dodge Dart and Ford Fusion hybrid models enter the mainstream market.

It looks like the goal is to swing the pendulum back to quality.

Market valuations swing like slow - motion pendulums, gradually moving from underpriced to overpriced and back to underpriced again.

The video is of my braid slowly swinging back and forth like a pendulum of a clock.

Its like random noise setting up a swinging motion in a pendulum.

ENSO factors do not swing like a pendulum, something many climate scientists are now beginning to realize.

This result indicates, since the GMT record begun, the GMT behaved like a stable pendulum with the two GMT boundary lines that are 0.5 deg C apart as the end points of the pendulum's swings, and the long - term global warming trend line of 0.06 deg C per decade as the pendulum's neutral position.

I like to think of the climate as a metronome; the pivot at bottom of the pendulum is the short multidecadal time scales scientists measure and at the top the weight attached to the pendulum is the longer millenia time scale, as the pendulum is swinging back and forward, climate scientists take measurements from the pivot and try to predict what direction the pendulum is swinging, as the faster moving pivot is a short multidecadal time scale, this is considered the natural variability of weather.

Now the pendulum has swung and it feels like Snapchat is doing anything and everything — including aping Instagram — to get users to stick around.

The economy is like a pendulum and appears to have started its swing back toward prosperity.

In fact, the market pendulum has swung fully in the other direction in favor of for - sale housing, but like all cycles, the early bird gets the worm.